Winter Sidebar...

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:40 am

I know December is long gone but, how come on Decemember 31, 2005 only some people got the winter sidebar from the Advent Calendar? I thought everyone was supposed to get the same prizes from the Advent Calendar. :\ ~ starfire1991
Actually, random prizes are ocassionally given out via the Advent Calendar. This is done just to spice things up a bit and give a few lucky people an extra prize we wouldn't be able to give out otherwise.

That being said, this was not the case here. Just like most of the other sidebars, there were certain requirements that had to be met in order to obtain the Winter Sidebar. If you met these requirements, you got it on the final day of the Advent Calendar. We can't tell you what those requirements were, of course, but it was certainly not a random giveaway. We'll give you a little hint however... the same requirements will need to be met next year, and the sidebar will again be given out on the final day of the Advent Calendar. You've got 10 months to figure it out!

anyone did get it on advent calendar ??

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:42 am

yea, I just saw that, and we should ask the people that got the sidebar if they did anything special.

I got prizes every day of the advent calendar, but did not get the sidebar, so we can rule that out.

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:45 am

You've got 10 months to figure it out!

anyway how could we figure it out if the one shot try is once a year... >_<

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:49 am

apranum wrote:anyway how could we figure it out if the one shot try is once a year... >_<

I agree--and I doubt too many people who received it remember what they did...

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:49 am

I got the Winter Sidebar. I'm trying to remember everything I did:

* I own a Christmas painted pet, but I can't remember if he was my active pet at the time (more likely it was my lab pet).
** Said pet was actually painted in early December, if that matters.
* I had less than 2000 NP on hand, I think
* I collected all of the advent calendar prizes

If you guys can think of anything else I should consider, tell me and I'll try to recall what I did.

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:59 am

I got the sidebar

*collected every day (usually right after midnight)
*had a christmas petpet (non active)
*had a snow petpet (non active)

Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:59 am

Owning the Christmas painted pet sounds VERY much like a requirement to me. I hope that's it - Christmas brushes might go up in price though.

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:02 am

Is there anyone with a Christmas pet who went to the AC that day and DIDN'T get the sidebar?

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:11 am

My sister got the sidebar but I didn't.

She...
...doesn't have a Christmas pet
...did have a winter petpet (Snowbunny)
...went all 31 days
...went shortly after midnight

I...
...also had Snowbunny (so can't be that)
...also went all 31 days (so can't be that)
...went a few hours after midnight

That's all we can recall for now...

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:13 am

Aaah... I did have christmas petpet but turmac ate him, somewhere in the middle december...

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:17 am

Hmmm. I don't think I had a Snow/Christmas petpet at the time (although I may have had an Abominable Snowball on one of my pets, but he was most likely zapped into something else). When I visited the advent calendar, it was around 7 or 8 am NST.

My Christmas-painted pet is a bori, which I believe is supposed to be a native Terror Mountain species. Once again, probably insignificant....

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:22 am

Someone in my guild thinks they got it by having the "Let it Snow!" avatar active that last day when they went to the advent calendar.

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:24 am

Can't be the avatar, because I didn't even have it in my collection, let alone have it activated (I use the Haiku avatar).

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:28 am

Ok, my mom got the sidebar. I don't believe she got the advent prize every day, she didn't have the let it snow! avatar, no snow/christmas pet/petpets.

Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:44 am

And I'd have thought the "requirements" would have to be something we could change otherwise some people would never be able to get the sidebar either (Eg, it wouldn't be not owning the Let It Snow avatar because we can't change that). Someone suggested it might have something to do with whether or not you used the items received earlier in December in a certain way. Alternatively, perhaps previous years' advent prize petpets?